The Southern Cheyennes - Berthrong, Donald J.
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Volume 66 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series. After nearly two centuries of fighting other Indians and whites for their lands, in the eighteenth century the Cheyennes were forced to shift their range from the Minnesota River Valley to the Central and Southern Plains. From 1861 to 1875 they fought to maintain their nomadic existence. There were bloody wars with territorial forces and army troops and a few years of intermittent peace and retaliation, including the massacre at Sand Creek in 1864. "We now have a clearer view of Cheyenne history and a concise account of American…mehr

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Volume 66 in The Civilization of the American Indian Series. After nearly two centuries of fighting other Indians and whites for their lands, in the eighteenth century the Cheyennes were forced to shift their range from the Minnesota River Valley to the Central and Southern Plains. From 1861 to 1875 they fought to maintain their nomadic existence. There were bloody wars with territorial forces and army troops and a few years of intermittent peace and retaliation, including the massacre at Sand Creek in 1864. "We now have a clearer view of Cheyenne history and a concise account of American reaction to an Indian problem."-American Historical Review "Berthrong deserves loud Huzzahs! For his careful, penetrating analysis of the Sand Creek Massacre, the most lucid and reasoned account of this controversial affair yet seen"- San Francisco Chronicle ". . . expert historical writing with the markings of a definitive study."-Montana "A well-written and soundly based narrative."-Ethnohistory ". . . a notable contribution to the history of the American West."-Mississippi Valley Historical Review Donald J. Berthrong is Professor Emeritus of History, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He is the author of The Cheyenne and Arapaho Ordeal: Reservation and Agency Life in the Indian Territory, 1875-1907, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.
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Donald J. Berthrong (1922-2012) was Professor of History, Purdue University, and is author of The Southern Cheyennes and The Cheyenne and Arapaho Ordeal: Reservation and Agency Life in the Indian Territory, 1875-1907.